Customers thirsty for real ale

Real ales offered at local festival

Cowbridge residents are celebrating the joys of real ale this weekend, at the Vale of Glamorgan Inn’s Real Ale Festival.

The festival, held alongside the Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival, offers 28 real ales at one time and approximately 50 to 55 different beers are sampled through the weekend, all of which are Welsh or from the Welsh borders.

Alistair Sarjeant, Manager and Licensee of the Inn, started by selling a selection of 12 real ales to thirsty customers who were visiting for the Food and Drink Festival.

He says, “Customers were coming out into the alleyway, buying the beer and going back in. I sold out so quickly I thought it would be a better idea to make it bigger and do it properly.”

The Real Ale Festival will be held at the Vale of Glamorgan Inn, on the 29 and 30 October. For more information please call: 01446 772252

CAMRA, the independent Campaign for Real Ale, were involved with the festival at the beginning. John Chapman, head of the Vale of Glamorgan branch says, of the festival,

“The one that the Vale of Glamorgan does over in Cowbridge is definitely one of the best pub festivals, well, certainly one of the best pub festivals I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant every year.”

More information on CAMRA can be found here: http://www.camra.org.uk

Polly Wilson, the event manager for the Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival says that the two festivals compliment each other. She says, “It brings people into town, is great for local businesses, to tout their wares and show what they offer all year round. It’s not just about the weekend.”

More information on the Food and Drink Festival can be found here: http://www.cowbridgefoodanddrink.org/

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